Mount Vernon school bond election and local meetings
Election day in Mount Vernon features a school bond vote with polls open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at City Hall. City and county meetings include Cedar Rapids City Council informal session Linn County Board of Supervisors and Human Resources Advisory Board sessions Linn County Nuclear Regulatory Committee and Marion City Council hearings. The Five Seasons Eastern Iowa Conservation Village Show runs 10 a.m. to 9 30 p.m.
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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon City Hall
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Marion Woman Hit by Car In Marion Suffered Fractures
Fedora Usovsky a 73 year old Marion resident was struck at 15th Street and First Avenue by Kevin Haas 17. She is in fair condition at Mercy Medical Center with multiple fractures. Haas faces a charge of failure to yield to a pedestrian. This followed another pedestrian injury in Marion 11 days earlier involving Mary Mundy 74.
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Marion
Mercy Medical Center
Fedora Usovsky
S.tith St
Kevin Haas
Seventh St
15Th Street
First Avenue
Mary Mundy
10Th St
Jarred Wilkinson
Ninth Ave
Fifth Avenue
10Th Street
Vision screenings planned in Cedar Rapids schools
Grant Wood Area Education Agency staff will screen February for all students at Wilson Madison Erskine Hoover elementary schools Wilson Metro and McKinley middle schools and Kennedy High School. Parents receive letters if a vision issue is suspected and further eye care is recommended. Call 399-6700 for more information.
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Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Wilson
Madison
Erskine
Hoover
Metro
McKinley
Nedy High School
Atlantic Brass Quintet Dazzles Cedar Rapids Audiences
Boston Universitys Atlantic Brass Quintet wowed Cedar Rapids Paramount Theatre patrons with Baroque samplers Mussorgsky and a modern Ewald Quintet no 3. Rasmussen produced clever horn solos while the tuba kept a steady pedal point for bold high brass colors. An encore offered Stella by Starlight.
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Boston University
Atlantic Brass Quintet
Cedar Rapids
Paramount
Joseph Foley
Kurt Dupuis
Robert Rasmussen
John Faieta
Julian Dixon
Torelli
Telemann
Mussorgsky
M. Mussorgsky
Victor Ewald
Jerome Kern
Porgy and
Bess
Paramount Theatre
Atlantic Brass
Biggest spender loses Linn County supervisor race
GOP hopeful Darlene Elbert spent 30,865 to win 34,727 votes, averaging 86 cents per vote, but failed to win a Linn County supervisor seat. Oxley and Perry won their races with 42,634 and 40,624 votes respectively, as Blome defeated Sawyer for sheriff.
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Roland Krekeler
Gazette
Darlene Elbert
Linn County
Jean Oxley
Kenneth Perry Jr
Paigns
Oxley
Perry
Elbert
Dennis Blome
Donald
Buzz” Sawyer
Blome
Sawyer
City weighs buying diagonal skywalk downtown
Cedar Rapids officials consider purchasing the diagonal skywalk linking Armstrong's and the Arco building. City Planner Don Salyer notes it could move from Third Avenue SE if The Crossings is built and may connect future parkades. The skywalk, owned by Armstrong's and private interests, cost about $190 000 to erect in 1980.
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Third Avenue
Third Street SE
Armstrong’s
Don Salyer
Arco Building
Salyer
Ground Transportation Center
Fourth Street
Fourth
Fifth Avenues
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Haas
Mundy
C.R
By Les Zachers
Parattia Raviawer
Kiev
Sutie
Rasmussen
le Picadilly
Iowa City
Oelwein
Norma
Troy C. Hames Jr
Oakwood Dr
William Taylor
Country Club Pkvy
P.O. Box
Gerald and
Dee Sullivan
SE Tower
Dick and
Sally Novetzke
Mount Vernon Rd
Roy Karon
Applewood Pl
Jay Hoyt
Second Ave
Timothy S. White
First Ave
Walter McNamara
Executive Plaza
Mark Hanrahan
Cottage Grove
Leo C. Peiffer
Cottage Grove Pkvy
Stephen B. Jackson
First St
Gene and
Loretta Dufoe
Mesa
Ariz
Armstrong’s Department Store
United Express Jets
United Express
Chicago
O’hare
United Airlines
Air Wisconsin
Universal Travel
AAA
2Nd
1St St
Universal Travel Travel Agency
Euaater
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